subject: Land Owners And Cell Phone Tower Leases [print this page] Cell phone companies all over the country need towers up to make their phones work; this we already know. If you are one of the land owners across the country that has signed a cell phone tower contract with a company, you might have recently been contacted by them to change the terms of the contract you agreed on with them. Lately, there are many changes that cell phone companies are trying to make to the agreements for a few different reasons. The reason for this is mainly because the technology has changed so fast and so much that the towers are either no longer needed or they are needed in a totally different manner than what they originally were designed for. With new technology comes new needs, and this means that on the one hand it is good when things progress and technology advances, but it usually also means that someone somewhere is getting the short end of the technology stick.
If these cell phone companies are needing to change their agreements, where does that leave the land owner who is on the other end of those contracts? When the cell phone technology was new, a lot of attention was rightly focused on erecting networks as quickly as possible. This took place throughout the 1990s, which was a period of time that came to be known as the first and second generations of cell phone technology. It was during this time that all of the prime locations for towers were sought out and thought to be the most important aspect of a companys success. Many of the buildings and properties were prime areas for these cell phone towers, and to use the land that a tower needed to be built on, cell phone companies had no choice but to rent the land for these towers. The Internet has many different websites that you can use for more information.
The average amount of rent that a company pays a land owner in this country is about $1,500 per month. there has been a huge change in the technology that cell phones rely on though, and this is basically the fact that it no longer matters how many cell phone towers there are, but it does now matter where those towers are located. Since quality is now more important than quantity, this is causing there to be a lot of unused towers across the country that are no longer needed. The problem that cell phone companies now have then is the fact that there are a lot of contracts that they are bound to, making them pay for towers they do not use any more.
